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Messi doesn’t need to win Chess: Of Karpov’s critical remark and Anand’s rise

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Anatoly Karpov once critically remarked that Viswanathan Anand “doesn’t have the character” to win big games. The observation “hit a raw nerve”, says the Indian, who has since become a name as big as the Russian in chess world.”Ah, well Vishy’s a nice guy but he just doesn’t have the character for a big win,” was what Karpov had said about Anand after beating him in the final of the 1998 world championship. Anand recalled the remark in his newly-released autography — ‘Mind Master – Winning Lessons from a Champion’s…

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Death penalty debate rages on as court considers plea of Nirbhaya convict

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“The death penalty has no place in the 21st century.”The quote by UN Secretary General Ant nio Guterres seems convincing, but over 50 countries still allow capital punishment and gruesome crimes such as the Nirbhaya gang rape-and-murder case serve as a reminder that the issue of doing away with death penalty is not a settled one. The 50 countries that still allow death penalty include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, the US, Iran, Japan, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Iraq, Indonesia and the UAE, according to information in public domain.The US-based Death Penalty Information…

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Delhi court to pronounce verdict in Unnao rape case against Kuldeep Sengar on Monday

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 A Delhi court is scheduled to pronounce on Monday its judgement in the case of alleged kidnapping and rape of a woman by expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in Unnao in 2017.During in-camera proceedings, District Judge Dharmesh Sharma had said he was likely to pronounce the verdict on December 16 after conclusion of hearing of final arguments by the CBI and the accused in the case.The judge heard the case on a day-to-day basis from August 5 after it was transferred to Delhi from a court in Lucknow on…

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Chulbul Pandey in ‘Dabangg’ was originally a negative character: Salman

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Superstar Salman Khan has revealed that “Dabangg” was originally a dark film with its lead character Chulbul Pandey being “out and out negative.”Directed by Abhinav Kashyap, the 2010 film featured Salman as Pandey, a fearless yet corrupt police officer with unorthodox working methods. It received critical acclaim and was a blockbuster upon its release.In a group interview, Salman revealed that before him, actor Randeep Hooda and his brother Arbaaz Khan were approached for the project.”It was a very dark film, small film to be made under Rs 2 crore. At…

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FM to hold pre-Budget consultations with stakeholders beginning Monday

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Beginning the customary pre-Budget consultation exercise from Monday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will seek inputs from various stakeholders including industry bodies, farmer organisations and economists for reviving consumption and boosting growth.Sitharaman is likely to present her second Budget for the Modi 2.0 government in Parliament on February 1.Sources said the pre-Budget consultations starting Monday will last till December 23.They said the main focus of the Budget this time will be on boosting economic growth, which slowed to an over six-year low of 4.5 per cent in the second quarter of…

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Seventh Economic Census To Be Complete By March 2020, Says Official

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The 7th Economic Census, which is being conducted nationwide through common services centres (CSCs), is expected to be completed by March 2020, Central Statistics Office Director General (Social Statistics) AK Sadhu said on Friday. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has tied up with CSC e-Governance Service for the 7th Economic Census. The survey was launched in Delhi on Friday.  “For the first time, the entire Census is being conducted on a digital platform by the use of an application which will ensure high accuracy and data security. …

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Anger Erupts At UN Climate Summit As Major Economies Resist Bold Action

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Major economies resisted calls for bolder climate commitments as a U.N. summit in Madrid limped towards a delayed conclusion on Saturday, dimming hopes that nations will act in time to stop rising temperatures devastating people and the natural world. With the two-week gathering spilling into the weekend, campaigners and many nations slammed Chile, presiding over the talks, for drafting a summit text that they said risked throwing the 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle global warming into reverse.  “At a time when scientists are queuing up to warn about terrifying consequences…

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Bharatnatyam Dancer Leela Samson Faces Charges In Auditorium Project

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The CBI has booked ace Bharatnatyam dancer and former Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi Leela Samson for alleged “unfruitful expenditure” in Rs 7.02-crore renovation project of Koothambalam auditorium of Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai, officials said Saturday. Ms Samson, a Padma Shree awardee and also a former chairperson of Central Board of Film Certification, has been booked along with the then officers of the Foundation: Chief Accounts Officer TS Murthi, Accounts Officer S Ramachandran, Engineering officer V Srinivasan and proprietor of CARD and Chennai Engineers, they said.  In a complaint to the…

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Aviation scam: Lobbyist Deepak Talwar’s close aide granted bail by Delhi court

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A Delhi court Friday granted bail to Yasmin Kapoor, a close aide of co-accused and corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar, in a money laundering case related to negotiations that allegedly favoured foreign private airlines causing losses to state-owned Air India.Special Judge Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj granted relief to the accused, saying she was not the main accused.The ED had arrested Kapoor on October 3 after the court cancelled the anticipatory bail granted to her in the case after the probe agency submitted that she was misusing the bail.The bail was granted on…

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‘Kabir Singh’ represents more than 70 per cent of urban India: Anurag Kashyap

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Why shouldn’t a film like “Kabir Singh” exist when it represents more than 70 to 80 per cent of urban India, says director Anurag Kashyap who believes it is important to make people uncomfortable rather than stay politically correct in cinema.There has always been a debate around the role or responsibility of artistes and whether they should bear accountability for the art they put out but Kashyap says one cannot enforce the existence of one kind of cinema. “The first thing is, it’s up to you whether you want to…

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